Pocket Silhouettes

I love the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set. This is one of a series of little thank you cards I've made using Earth Elements cardstock and markers. Quick and simple. I've used Dazzling Diamonds glitter around the main image and on the flower heads.

Happy (Belated) Valentine's Day

... and here's the card I made for Ian (on the day itself... a bit late, I know, but I am behind with everything because of all the work we've been having done in the house). Ian made me a very fancy lunch, which was much better than my card!

The base card is Bashful Blue and I've used Real Red and Tempting Turquoise cardstock and watercolour crayons for the squares. The stamp set is the Sealed With a Kiss set.

February

February already... and I see I've managed almost no posts during January! Hopeless.

We've been having work done to the house, which seems to be taking up most of our time. I've had my 20 week scan and everything seems to be fine so far.

It's snowing heavily today; I think the forecast is snow for the remainder of the evening and early morning tomorrow. We haven't had much snow at all this year, unlike most of the remainder of the UK.

I've attached a photo of a card made using the Botanical Blooms SAB stamp set and Earth Elements colours.

Happy New Year... and free Stampin' Up! stamp sets!

Happy new year! 2008 seems to have flown past.

Sale-a-bration has reached the UK! Throughout January and February, Stampin' Up! is offering free stamps. There are four stamp sets to choose from; click here to view the brochure.

Customers: receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set with every £45 purchase.

Hostesses: receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set with every £300 or more workshop hosted, in addition to the normal hostess benefits.

New Demonstrators: choose any retail stamp set (up to £38.95 in value) from the current catalogue when signing up during the promotion. Contact me if you're interested!

Baby

Following the theme from the last post... A new baby card made for a friend's wee boy about a month ago.

The cardstock is SU Bashful Blue and I've used the same colour of ink to stamp the little pattern stamp from the Bundle of Joy stamp set on the background. The "sweet heart" stamp in the punched circles is also from the Bundle of Joy stamp set and the stamp on the lower left is from the Best Wishes & More stamp set.

News

Well, this is why I've been "quiet" for a while... The due date is probably around the end of June.

I have a couple of scan photos, but I think this one is quite funny, as the baby has turned to stare at us - you can see the eye sockets! Cheeky. The photos are fairly poor compared with the images we saw on the monitor - we could see the arms and legs waving around very clearly!

Coldplay

We went to see Coldplay at the SECC in Glasgow last night... they were excellent, as you'd expect. Very slick and professional. The second photo above shows the band during a short acoustic set where they left the stage and stood behind us.

Here's a very lame recording of "Yellow"... love those yellow balloon beach balls! If you can be bothered to watch as far as 47 seconds, the sound improves dramatically when I remove my finger from the microphone (d'oh)!

I'm back (again)!

I've been in America (central Boston) for the last two weeks... but I'm home again. I managed to wangle a trip to see The Eagles in concert at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA (about an hour west of Boston) on Wednesday 26th November... it was excellent.

More posts to follow shortly!

The photo above shows some Christmas cards I made for a Stampin' Up! demonstrator card swap before I left. Unfortunately, I've yet to make any Christmas cards of my own... haven't had time!

Stars

As the majority of this week has, once again, been taken up with (unexpected) time in hospital and related trauma, I won't even go there... You couldn't make it up - it has the storyline of a rotten TV drama.

Instead, here's a card I made this evening to cheer myself up whilst listening to The Long Road Out of Eden album by The Eagles (the panacea for all ills!).

I've used the new SU "In the Stars" stamp set and the new Chocolate Chip double-stitched ribbon. I've used Earth Elements markers to colour the stamps to give the stars a "tie dye" effect.